Some Want Michigan to Regulate Septic Tanks to Protect Water Quality
Being a state with direct access to a lot of freshwater creates opportunities for housing, jobs and tourism. However, the quality of Michigan’s water is threatened due to poorly maintained […]
Over 31,000 pounds of trash collected from Michigan rivers, streams in ’23
Nearly a dozen organizations across the state received funding from EGLE to collect garbage from rivers and streams last year. Over 1,600 volunteers worked a collective of 3,699 hours to clean various […]
Elk Rapids Wants to Help Its Shoreline Through New State Climate Corps Program
Michigan is working with communities and organizations to tackle climate change by funding new staff positions. To protect and restore shoreline both on lakefronts and along the river edges, Elk […]
Little Traverse Bay Watershed Advisory Committee
The Little Traverse Bay Watershed Protection Plan was approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in 2007. The goal of the plan is to […]
Little Traverse Bay Watershed Protection Plan
Little Traverse Bay Watershed is at an important crossroads. On one road lies the degraded water quality that will result if past abuses are left uncorrected and the development predicted […]
Lake Street Dam Engineering Alternatives Study
The survey for the Bear River Lake Street Dam Engineering Alternatives Study is now closed. Public input was requested and factored into the study. The study is part of a Great […]
Great Lakes ice coverage faces record low impacting weather, recreation, wildlife
Ice coverage plays an important role for us here in Michigan and it’s no surprise with the recent conditions, there’s not a lot of ice. December 2023 was one of […]
Little Traverse Bay Watershed Road/Stream Crossing Inventory
In 2012, a road/stream crossing (RSX) inventory for the Bear River Watershed, a subwatershed of Little Traverse Bay, was conducted by the Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council (TOMWC) as […]
